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Belgarion
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Nuclear is Green
Jul 7th, 2022 at 12:42pm
 
In a huge victory for common sense the EU has declared that nuclear power is 'green' along with natural gas. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/07/06/natural-gas-nuclear-go-gre...

Only a matter of time before the same logic is applied in Australia. Smiley
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Re: Nuclear is Green
Reply #1 - Jul 7th, 2022 at 1:11pm
 
From your ref -

"Somewhat ironically, the German government expressed opposition to the policy as being counter to its own efforts to retire its few remaining nuclear power plants."

Germany is still tied to Energiewende.
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Reply #2 - Jul 7th, 2022 at 1:31pm
 
Be better if it a was for Thorium reactors but
they still haven't ironed out the bugs yet:

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1519823686/150#150
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Reply #3 - Jul 7th, 2022 at 10:46pm
 
It's time that the Australian populace understood the safety of nuclear
power generation and its necessity for the country to "go green" and
give fossil fuels the big heave-ho by 2050.

Looking at the rest of the world's major nuclear power generators
should sound some sort of wake up call for the tree-huggers surely?

China has 53 reactors and 16 under construction,
France 56 and 1,

Russia 34 and 4,
US 94 and 2,

Japan 33 and 2,
South Korea 24 and 3,

India 22 and 8,
UK 15 and 2.

As of June 2022, 447 reactors with a net capacity of 398,176 MWe are
operational, and 52 reactors with net capacity of 54,377 MWe are under
construction.

US utility-scale electricity generation by
source, amount, and share of total in 2021
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Fossil fuels: 2,504 billion kWh,
Nuclear: 778,
Wind: 380,
Hydro: 260,
Solar: 115.

[one kWh = the amount of energy a device needs to run for one hour]



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